Best Mall Trip Ever

Before I write about the actual mall experience, allow me to create the setting. First, Sophie stubbed her toe the night before and refused to wear any type of shoes and also refused to put any sort of weight on her left foot. Noah, about ten minutes prior to leaving for the mall threw up on my parents' floor. I figured he just ate too much for breakfast and was running around too soon after eating. 

Cue to the mall.....Meadowood Mall (this was my mall growing up and I refuse to believe the mall it has turned into.....wth?). Anyway, Sophie has no shoes, so I am carrying my 4 1/2 year-old around in an attempt to buy some shoes that she can actually wear (i.e. crocs or sandals). I am sweating profusely as I am carrying her around from store to store to store. Noah is abnormally quiet in his stroller and not doing too much whining. After going to several shoe stores, Sophie can no longer handle the sight of shoes, let alone put one on her alleged broken toe. We give up and Tim is now carrying her on his shoulders because Noah is now whining and wants to be held (don't you love pushing an empty stroller around and carrying two kids on your hip?). We enter the Disney store and I put Noah down so he can pick something out. He wants nothing to do with it and his body goes limp, crying for me to hold him. Two seconds later, as he is snuggling up on me, he PUKES all over me.....in the Disney store....in front of everyone. I calmly walk out of the store and attempt to clean myself up while also doing my best to not dry heave. Now I am still sweating like crazy, but am also covered in puke....fabulous. Needless to say, we hightailed it out of there after that and managed to buy Sophie some cheap sandals while rushing out of the mall.

Noah ended up having some sort of stomach virus and Sophie's toe is all healed now. And Mommy is forever traumatized from my experience at the Disney store.....the crap I put myself through to do a little shopping.